o is not in favor of Universal
Liberty, without respect to color.

Passed, unanimously.

Politics, my boy, are, in themselves, a distinct system of life and
death; and when we say that a man is politically dead, we mean that
even his en-graving is forgotten; and that the brick which he carries
in his hat is a species of head-stone.

Yours, post obit,

ORPHEUS C. KERR.

LETTER LXXXI.

SHOWING HOW A MINION OF TYRANNY WAS TERRIBLY PUNISHED FOR
INTERFERING WITH THE CONSERVATIVE WOMEN OF AMERICA; AND DESCRIBING
THE KENTUCKY CHAP'S REMARKABLE SKIRMISH WITH HIS THANKSGIVING
DINNER.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 7th, 1863.

As I make it a practice to pay all my honest debts, my boy, and have
never flagellated a person of African descent, I could not properly
come under the head of "Chivalry" in an American dictionary, though I
might possibly come under its feet in the "Union-as-it-Was;" yet I have
that in my nature which revolts at the thought of a war against women,
and am sufficiently chivalrous to defend any cause whose effects are
crinoline. The bell-shaped structure called Woman, my boy, was created
expressly to conquer unresisting adversaries; to win engagements
without receiving a blow, and to do pretty much as she pleases, by
pleasing pretty much as she does. She is a harmless creation of
herself, my boy; and to war directly against her because she may chance
to influence her male friends to war against us, is about as sensible
as it would be to execrate our hatter because a gust of wind blows our
new beaver into the mud. If the hatter had not made the hat, the wind
could not have blown it off, and if God had not made women, she could
not encourage the well-known Southern Confederacy against us; but shall
we turn enemy to the hatter, or to the woman, on this account? Not if
we know ourselves, my boy, and recognize the high moral spirit of
justice observable in the Constitution.

Being thus possessed of a reverence for that sex whose bonnets remind
me of cake-baskets, I cannot refrain from frowning indignantly upon
that horrible spirit of national tyranny which has inspired Sergeant
O'Pake, of the demoralized Mackerel Brigade, to issue the following

"GENERAL ORDER."

"For the purpose of simplifying national strategy to those
conservative women of America who, while engaged in the pursuit of
happiness as guaranteed by the Constitution, desire to visit the
Southern Con